EXTRA PADDING is better than fortified. It basically sets your survivability to the pre patch state. Pay attention to what kills you. It's not explosives. You can survive like 3 devastator rockets now, and they knock you away before you take more than a couple hits. I'm pretty sure the rocket strider rocket one shots you regardless. Laser machine guns are the most dangerous thing they have. So extra padding is the way to go. That, or servo assisted, so you can bombard bases with stratagems from 100m away, cause that's about the distance from the base to any cover they give you.
They should make armor with resistance because fucking hell even when a strider rocket does basically no damage and misses it often just sends me flying against a rock instakilling me regardless.
First and foremost, you're my favorite Helldivers 2 content creator. I appreciate your perspective, whether I agree with it or not, and I really enjoy the way you present it. You do an awesome job, man!
I’ve been running the default B01 Helldiver armor, scorcher, grenade pistol, thermites, shield pack, railgun, 500kg, and precision strike and so far my only deaths have come from mentally disabled random teammates 👍
@@smoldoggy1005 solid build, similar to mine. How do you deal with cannon towers out of range of the eagles? Does this build struggle with large groups of bots? Seems a little weak in the hoard clear department.
Honestly the arc thrower is amazing against the bots the stagger is amazing and its infinite ammo. So if you havnt tried it I encourage you guys to dive and use it with a shield it’s fantastic combo
This is what I do. Shield is practically necessary as you can't fire from out of cover. But once that first shot goes, you can walk around freely while killing the squad. Even with thermites killing hulks, I've saved so many helldivers by tapping hulks a couple times to keep them stunned while the thermites counts down.
Yeaaah, i really prefer the railgun over anything else for automatons, and the penetrator for any light enemies. I use the shield generator instead of supply pack and keep running out of railgun ammo. I just didn't even think about using supply pack. Tho I really prefer light armor, which combines great with the shield. Zooming around the map, ignoring storms is very fun
My build, Primary, cross bow Secondary, las dagger (laser pistol) Nade, stunn Armour, either medium with extra padding or medic armour Stratagems, Rail gun, Precision airstrike ( for detector towers and other stuff) And eagle strafing run (1 shot tanks if get direct hit and 1 shots fabricators) Ballistic shield
I do plasma punisher/nade pistol/thermite/peak physique medium armor. I go with eagle rocket pods/eagle airstrike, supply pack, and HMG. It’s a super fast run and gun, base clear and gtfo build. Only thing that’s tough is factory striders but teamates usually grab those or i just clear the base and evade. But i can get under them and hmg them or rocket pod and airstrike them until they are down haha. Great vid boss!
I can't decide between jar5/grenade pistol versus crossbow/side shotty/senator. Am also rotating between AMR/HMG/Railgun. Need to experiment with rocket turret when I get off this current jungle planet MO.
I’d take Counter Sniper or revert back to the Sickle to hunt the heads of devastators and conserve rail gun ammo. At that point might as well use rockets or the laser canon, but the rail gun is a fun mix up once in a while.
the aim speed armor is also really nice since you dont need the recoil reduction or extra grenades. pretty much a necessity when running sniper, DMR or the dominator
I'm sorry, I'm not playing "ring around the rosie" with a turret to put *6* shots into it (that i have to charge up), when i could just point-click-delete with a recoiless.
Apart from controlling the flying stuff, I'm pretty happy running the Blitzer and the Arc. No ammo, good enough range, excellent crowd control in all cases, good for tanks, hulks, turrets and everything else. And no need to aim at weakspots when things get hot.
You run arc thrower and the blitzer vs the bots? I'm genuinely interested. Why the blitzer over the sickle? How effective is the arc thrower vs tanks? What other strategems do you bring? Tell me more.
yuppp, made the game nearly unplayable once again, i can complete the rare mission here and there but most of them i crash or get disconnected before i can ever finish the mission, heavily heavily discouraging to spend near 40 minutes of time for absolutely nothing
Recoilless is good if you have support or go full stealth. Otherwise it's trash. You need absolute firepower against massive amounts of enemies of all types. Thermites take care of what the recoilless does (besides fac striders) and the rail gun literally deletes EVERYTHING else. Hulks, devastators, all striders, berserkers, gunships all get insta fucked by the railgun, and doesn't need to take forever to reload. This is for lvl10, where small bots don't really exist and all you're against are devastators and rocket striders and hulks.
Why do people pick crossbow for automatons it stinks. The grenade launcher does a surprisingly good job against groups of devastators, killing like 10 of them grouped up with ease, so if a teammate already has a recoilless or something for bigger enemies it's pretty good. Also just the HMG emplacement can be a solution for gunships hulks and anything less tanky than that. Also instead of railgun, autocannon or anti tank rifle I like the lasercannon way more, it can take out everything the railgun can upfront with infinite ammo meaning you can take a backpack item other than supplies.
While I do agree that this is a good loadout, there is no such thing as a "best" loadout thanks to the latest patch. Finally, we have options.
EXTRA PADDING is better than fortified. It basically sets your survivability to the pre patch state. Pay attention to what kills you. It's not explosives. You can survive like 3 devastator rockets now, and they knock you away before you take more than a couple hits. I'm pretty sure the rocket strider rocket one shots you regardless. Laser machine guns are the most dangerous thing they have. So extra padding is the way to go. That, or servo assisted, so you can bombard bases with stratagems from 100m away, cause that's about the distance from the base to any cover they give you.
They should make armor with resistance because fucking hell even when a strider rocket does basically no damage and misses it often just sends me flying against a rock instakilling me regardless.
Recoilless rifle ≥ railgun
Arc thrower ≥ Everything else
@@ragingreaper1190 nawwww
@@ragingreaper1190for bugs absolutely!!!
@@ragingreaper1190I don’t like it against the bots. I don’t know why but I’ve never like it since its glory days. Nice video btw man!!
What are you gonna do about a mission with 4 gunship fabricator objectives?
Gotta say, love your vids. I would never run the load outs I do had I not watched some of your videos. Keep them coming.
Same here! Really appreciate these videos👌
First and foremost, you're my favorite Helldivers 2 content creator. I appreciate your perspective, whether I agree with it or not, and I really enjoy the way you present it. You do an awesome job, man!
No, id recommend recoiless rifle to 1 tap dropships/2 tap factory strider from the side
Quality loadout. I'm loving the railgun against bots for sure.
The best build is literally crossbow and RR. Nothing else needed.
I’ve been running the default B01 Helldiver armor, scorcher, grenade pistol, thermites, shield pack, railgun, 500kg, and precision strike and so far my only deaths have come from mentally disabled random teammates 👍
@@smoldoggy1005 solid build, similar to mine. How do you deal with cannon towers out of range of the eagles? Does this build struggle with large groups of bots? Seems a little weak in the hoard clear department.
@@Rovaneon usually the scorcher just takes care of large groups and I just evade cannons I can’t thermite
Honestly the arc thrower is amazing against the bots the stagger is amazing and its infinite ammo. So if you havnt tried it I encourage you guys to dive and use it with a shield it’s fantastic combo
This is what I do. Shield is practically necessary as you can't fire from out of cover. But once that first shot goes, you can walk around freely while killing the squad. Even with thermites killing hulks, I've saved so many helldivers by tapping hulks a couple times to keep them stunned while the thermites counts down.
Yeaaah, i really prefer the railgun over anything else for automatons, and the penetrator for any light enemies. I use the shield generator instead of supply pack and keep running out of railgun ammo. I just didn't even think about using supply pack.
Tho I really prefer light armor, which combines great with the shield. Zooming around the map, ignoring storms is very fun
My build,
Primary, cross bow
Secondary, las dagger (laser pistol)
Nade, stunn
Armour, either medium with extra padding or medic armour
Stratagems,
Rail gun,
Precision airstrike ( for detector towers and other stuff)
And eagle strafing run (1 shot tanks if get direct hit and 1 shots fabricators)
Ballistic shield
I do plasma punisher/nade pistol/thermite/peak physique medium armor.
I go with eagle rocket pods/eagle airstrike, supply pack, and HMG. It’s a super fast run and gun, base clear and gtfo build. Only thing that’s tough is factory striders but teamates usually grab those or i just clear the base and evade. But i can get under them and hmg them or rocket pod and airstrike them until they are down haha. Great vid boss!
I can't decide between jar5/grenade pistol versus crossbow/side shotty/senator. Am also rotating between AMR/HMG/Railgun.
Need to experiment with rocket turret when I get off this current jungle planet MO.
Crossbow + Senate + thermite
AMR
Supply Pack
Airstrike/OPS/500
380/Sentry
I’d take Counter Sniper or revert back to the Sickle to hunt the heads of devastators and conserve rail gun ammo. At that point might as well use rockets or the laser canon, but the rail gun is a fun mix up once in a while.
I only just got the crossbow and it was some of the most fun I’ve had. Popping devastators in the face, blasting groups of bots, it was a good time
Ytbers not making another crossbow build challenge:
More impossible than super duper mega helldive.
I’ve been going 500 KG MG emplacement shield pack rail gun w/ the grenade pistol scorcher and thermites
the aim speed armor is also really nice since you dont need the recoil reduction or extra grenades. pretty much a necessity when running sniper, DMR or the dominator
Don't forget to bring the napalm barrage! Trow 1 down and you inmediatly see why. Even against the bots.
I too think the railmen is superior to the lasercannon in almost every way but I still can’t bring myself to like railgun
I'm sorry, I'm not playing "ring around the rosie" with a turret to put *6* shots into it (that i have to charge up), when i could just point-click-delete with a recoiless.
Simply throw 1 thermite.
Apart from controlling the flying stuff, I'm pretty happy running the Blitzer and the Arc. No ammo, good enough range, excellent crowd control in all cases, good for tanks, hulks, turrets and everything else. And no need to aim at weakspots when things get hot.
You run arc thrower and the blitzer vs the bots? I'm genuinely interested.
Why the blitzer over the sickle?
How effective is the arc thrower vs tanks?
What other strategems do you bring?
Tell me more.
Pretty dangerous load out to run if you need to help teammates or run into gunships
anyone else having constant crashing again after recent hotfix?
yuppp, made the game nearly unplayable once again, i can complete the rare mission here and there but most of them i crash or get disconnected before i can ever finish the mission, heavily heavily discouraging to spend near 40 minutes of time for absolutely nothing
In ps5 is ok
recoiless rifle is the best support weapon for bots IMO.
railgun very satisfying and strong too, but recoiless is just a delete button
Recoilless is good if you have support or go full stealth. Otherwise it's trash. You need absolute firepower against massive amounts of enemies of all types. Thermites take care of what the recoilless does (besides fac striders) and the rail gun literally deletes EVERYTHING else. Hulks, devastators, all striders, berserkers, gunships all get insta fucked by the railgun, and doesn't need to take forever to reload. This is for lvl10, where small bots don't really exist and all you're against are devastators and rocket striders and hulks.
Why do people pick crossbow for automatons it stinks.
The grenade launcher does a surprisingly good job against groups of devastators, killing like 10 of them grouped up with ease, so if a teammate already has a recoilless or something for bigger enemies it's pretty good. Also just the HMG emplacement can be a solution for gunships hulks and anything less tanky than that.
Also instead of railgun, autocannon or anti tank rifle I like the lasercannon way more, it can take out everything the railgun can upfront with infinite ammo meaning you can take a backpack item other than supplies.